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BALONPESADO, LIGHT GAME
With a yarn-filled balloon, thirty students and a physical education teacher created an attractive local sport in the country: balonpesado. Its first stage was not a stadium or a coliseum, but the maximum classroom Technical Institute Gerardo Valencia Cano of Buenaventura. Then became popular, and now many people in the Pacific port practitioners.

The game, developedby physical education teacher Roberto Lozano, is to shoot a ball into a circle painted on the floor at each end of the court.
If the foot in football are the most important, in this discipline are the hands ... Each team consists of ten players, five members and five alternates who can come and go at any time. Each time a team managed to introduce the ball in the circle makes both.

The name isdue to the characteristics of the ball. It uses a deflated volleyball and stuffed with cloth and foam. No bounces, is dull and heavy.

Before becoming a physical education teacher, Lozano represented Colombia in various international championships weightlifting, with outstanding performances.
I wanted my students also excel and be motivated in the sport. This is not going to make it only withrepetitive motions and a medicine ball.

He did not want the traditional sports, but something original. For this reason forgot baskets. It would be like basketball. It also meshes, for volleyball, and even more so the arches, by the inevitable reference to football. A little formula emerged discard this activity.

The start was a bit complicated. Afraid for the lack of interest that isnational, told his students that had seen the balonpesado in America.

They were excited. After brief explanations, demarcated circles at high school classroom and started playing. They made two teams of 15. And to the surprise of Lozano, during change of class, other students became fans of the game.

No one obeyed the bell, and the manager had to ask me to leave practice to resume classes. Ithought then that a sport able to focus as much attention should be very good.

After one week, the popularity of balonpesado had increased at school. Only Lozano hitherto dared to say that he had created. Then took him to St. Bonaventure Seminary, where he was professor of physical education and sports.

At five months old, the balonpesado was recognized by the Sports Board Buenaventura, and suchwas the fever that played a city championship with 14 teams, consisting of boxers, wrestlers, basketball players and footballers.

The activity began when he arrived in Buenaventura internationalize the Sanctuary, hospital ship of the U.S. Navy, which remained in port for two months.

The sailors went on shore to play basketball at the Municipal Coliseum. There he made ​​contact with Lozano,who explained what was the balonpesad
He immediately organized a meeting between local selection and crew of Sanctuary. It was a game that brought together members of the Navy and some civil authorities. And the result favored visitors by 7 points to 5.

Thereafter, the sailors became faithful practitioners of the sport. Germans passed through it, Soviets, Mexicans, Cubans and Canadians.Everyone loved the balonpesado.

As practiced, its regulation has been refined. You now have major differences to what was initially.
Today, the balonpesado has COLDEPORTES recognition. And it has been presented as an exhibition in National Games and Games of the Pacific Coast.

While playing in 13 departments, there is no doubt that its true diffusion only occurs in Buenaventura. Internationally,the sailors practiced in the different ports where they arrive. GAME RULES The field has the same dimensions of a basketball court. But in this case, has drawn on its ends, circles of 1.50 meters in diameter to score the goals. Three arbitrators: one internal and two side referees. These control center that behind the rules are not violated and have their whistle to alert any problem. In midfield...